agamble
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2011
We live in California. This year we purchased tickets that allow us 3 days at Universal Hollywood. We have used one day and will use the other two in March or April. The tour is great, but does not exist in FL. Visiting Hogwarts was fun too, and I understand it is much larger in FL. The park in CA is small and very crowded, we visited over Memorial Day weekend. Wait times were long, but I understand they are much longer in FL.
We are going to Orlando for WDW for about 2 weeks this summer. I'm having second thoughts about including USO as the parks are likely to be extremely busy with wait times estimated to be 90-300 minutes for popular attractions. The express pass costs as much as the park tickets during June, so not worth it. Our kids will be 4, 7, and 10. Our 4 year old is tall (probably 44" by then), but will still not be able to ride several attractions, our 7 year old will make the 48" required of several rides. Mostly it is the crowds that concern me. I'm not sure it is worth $1,000 if the days will be hot and crowded with long lines for all attractions (we waited an hour at USH for Kung Fu Panda) and extreme lines for the popular ones. Disney makes things easy with FP guaranteeing a ride on a few good attractions each day with limited wait. We are staying in a Timeshare this trip, so onsite at USO is not an option.
Is Universal as busy as I am seeing online? Would we spend most of the day waiting in ridiculous lines?
We are going to Orlando for WDW for about 2 weeks this summer. I'm having second thoughts about including USO as the parks are likely to be extremely busy with wait times estimated to be 90-300 minutes for popular attractions. The express pass costs as much as the park tickets during June, so not worth it. Our kids will be 4, 7, and 10. Our 4 year old is tall (probably 44" by then), but will still not be able to ride several attractions, our 7 year old will make the 48" required of several rides. Mostly it is the crowds that concern me. I'm not sure it is worth $1,000 if the days will be hot and crowded with long lines for all attractions (we waited an hour at USH for Kung Fu Panda) and extreme lines for the popular ones. Disney makes things easy with FP guaranteeing a ride on a few good attractions each day with limited wait. We are staying in a Timeshare this trip, so onsite at USO is not an option.
Is Universal as busy as I am seeing online? Would we spend most of the day waiting in ridiculous lines?